154 



SINGING BIRDS — OSCINES. 



C. frontalis. 



some to characterize the females as -well as the males at times, but they do 

 not obtain it the first year, and are said to lose it as they grow old. 



Carpodacus Californicus, 15aikd. 



THE WESTERN PUEPLE FINCH. 



Car;w(faCTS pifryjiirras, of West Coast, Newberrv, P. R. Rup. VI. iv. 88. — Heeemann, X. 



vi. .^)0. 

 Carpodacus Gilifmiiiciis, Baird, P. R. Rcji. IX. Birds, 41.'3. Ib. Birds of N. Amer. ; pi. 72. 



— Cooper and Sucklev, XII. iii. Zool. of W. T. 190. 



Sp. Cii.\r. Third quill longest ; first shorter th.aii fourth. Body crimson, p.alest on the 

 breast, darkest across the middle of back and wing coverts, where the feathers have dusky 

 centres. The red extends below continuously to the lower part of the breast, and in spots 

 to the tibiae. The belly and under tail coverts white, streaked faintly with brown, except 



Female, 



in the very middle. Edjres of wings and tail featliers brownish-red ; lesser coverts like the 

 back Two reddish bands across the wings (over the ends of the middle and greater 

 coverts). Lores dull grayish ; the head with a broad supraorbital lateral band of lighter 

 purple. 



